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Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields …
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The effect of veterans benefits on veterans' education and earnings
Angrist, Joshua D. - 1990
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When opportunity knocks, who answers? : new evidence on college achievement awards
Angrist, Joshua D.; Oreopoulos, Philip; Williams, Tyler - 2010
"We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …
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The effect of age at school entry on educational attainment : an application of instrumental variables with moments from two samples
Angrist, Joshua D.; Krueger, Alan B. - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000791232
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The elite illusion : achievement effects at Boston and New York exam schools
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua D.; Pathak, Parag A. - 2012
Parents gauge school quality in part by the level of student achievement and a school's racial mix. The importance of … cutoffs for the most selective of these schools move from above-average schools to schools with students drawn from the … extreme upper tail. Exam school students can also expect to study with fewer nonwhite classmates than unsuccessful applicants …
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The elite illusion : achievement effects at Boston and New York exam schools
Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua D.; Pathak, Parag A. - 2011
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Methods for measuring school effectiveness
Angrist, Joshua D.; Hull, Peter; Walters, Christopher R. - 2022
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The impact of teacher skills on student performance across countries
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014 - Preliminary version
Student performance differs greatly across countries, but little is known about the role of teacher quality in explaining these differences. New international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow for the first time to quantify teacher skills in numeracy and literacy, providing...
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544331